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I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences.
-Harvey Pekar
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I Think You Can Find All The

Harvey Pekar
I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences.
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Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted"—"not permitted"—"this you can and that you can't." literature that is not the air of its contemporary society, that dares not warn in time against threatening moral and social dangers, such literature does not deserve the name of literature; it is only a facade. such literature loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as waste paper instead of being read. -letter to the fourth national congress of soviet writers
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I got letters from people that have had peculiar psychic experiences, experiences with the dead - sometimes fairly tranquil experiences and sometimes very terrifying experiences. i do believe that a lot of them are sincere. i do believe, also, that some of them may be misguided. but, i think the majority of them have experienced something.
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All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. on the other hand, however, they are products of the spontaneous activity of our minds; they are thus in no wise logical consequences of the contents of these sense-experiences. if, therefore, we wish to grasp the essence of a complex of abstract notions we must for the one part investigate the mutual relationships between the concepts and the assertions made about them; for the other, we must investigate how they are related to the experiences.
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To our senses, the elements are four and have ever been, and will ever be for they are the elements of life, of poetry, and of perception, the four great ones, the four roots, the first four of fire and the wet, earth and the wide air of the world. to find the other many elements, you must go to the laboratory and hunt them down. but the four we have always with us, they are our world. or rather, they have us with them.
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Literature presents you with alternate mappings of the human experience. you see that the experiences of other people and other cultures are as rich, coherent, and troubled as your own experiences. they are as beset with suffering as yours. literature is a kind of legitimate voyeurism through the keyhole of language where you really come to know other people's lives--their anguish, their loves, their passions. often you discover that once you dive into those lives and get below the surface, the veneer, there is a real closeness.
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It seems to me that literature is giving way a little bit to the immediacy of other diversions, other forms of entertainment. what will it be in fifty years? i don't know. will there be printed books? probably, but i'm not sure. there's always going to be literature, though. i believe that. i think literature has a way of getting deep into people and being essential. literature has its own powers.
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